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You can't win the game, it exists only to destroy your mind

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Re: You can't win the game, it exists only to destroy your mind

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Post by klipt »

B5geek wrote: post #42
ozh wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

than.

I'm going to assume you are a grammar Nazi of the American variety. thEn is a correct and acceptable spelling in Canada. ########### As I was typing this up I was looking for references to back up statement. BUT I was wrong. (damn my 4rd grade english teacher!) I was taught that the two words were grammatically the same it was just a difference in US vs 'British/Canadian' spelling. (i.e. grey vs gray) So, please igno…

Hahaha, oh wow, that's hilarious!

Glad you learned something today :-) http://xkcd.com/1053/

Re: You can't win the game, it exists only to destroy your mind

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Post by lotharbot »

maaarghk wrote: post #40
sphericalgames wrote: post #38

Win vs Beat A lot of people fall into this trap. When someone beats me at a game, they most likely say "I've won you." as oppose to "I've beaten you." The former implies I'm the prize. I've fallen into this trap myself plenty of times and do wonder if messages like "You win ...." enforces this mistake.

Not only do I fail to see the relevance to this link, but I've never heard anyone say "I've won you" in my life, and I doubt I ever will, because that is a stupid thing to say.

my fourth grade students said it all last year. (Most of them were not native English speakers.)

Re: You can't win the game, it exists only to destroy your mind

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Post by digsmahler »

EliRivers wrote: post #54
deaconblues wrote: post #11

I played for a minute or two, said "Huh," and closed the tab. Sure feels like I won.

What did you win?

Did he win not losing? I played this for 6-7 minutes and can no longer do anything but cower in the horribly glorious splendor of the God of recursion. I can feel my mind draining out through my tear ducts.

Re: You can't win the game, it exists only to destroy your mind

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Post by jwise0 »

Tom7 (the author) has done quite a lot of great stuff; his game "T in Y world" [1] is pretty good, and you may also remember him from his programs Learnfun & Playfun, which taught themselves to play Super Mario (and various other NES games) [2].

Do check out more of his work!

[1] http://tinyworld.spacebar.org/ [2] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/mario/

Re: You can't win the game, it exists only to destroy your mind

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Post by dalke »

at-fates-hands wrote: post #48
dalke wrote: post #26

"The only winning move is not to play." - WOPR

"How about a nice game of chess?" I thought the computer went by Joshua, since that's what Dr, Falkan referred to it in the last scene of the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s93KC4AGKnY

I don't think we can conclude any name.

Falken saw the computer as a surrogate for his dead son. In that scene he said "Hello, Joshua" but the screen only shows "Hello". Lightman and Mack never knew the name WOPR, at least not before the military got involved, so the only name they had to go on was the password. I don't think the computer ever mentioned a name for itself.

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